Harassment, silences and Indian academia; Meeting Dina Wadia on Madison Avenue; and more 

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [God of Go: The Rise of Superhuman Intelligence Without Human Knowledge]( Siby Abraham [Go is an ancient two-player game, around 2,500 years old. It is played predominantly in China, Korea and Japan. It has a simple set of rules that dictate play on 19 by 19 grid. There are two coloured stones: black and white. Players take turns to put down one stone at a time and try to occupy the maximum number of cells on the grid. An opponent’s stone can be ‘captured’ if it is surrounded by one’s own stones. The game ends when one party wins or both agree to a draw.]( [Harassment, Silences and Indian Academia]( Mohan J Dutta [A single-handed focus on due process creates a false binary, failing to notice the limits of processes and the urgency of transformations being voiced in the claims made by victims of sexual harassment.]( [Is the National Health Insurance Scheme in Chhattisgarh Doing More Damage Than Good?]( Sulakshana Nandi [Studies from Chhattisgarh and other states show that most private hospitals force people to pay additional money even after using health insurance.]( [BJP’s Icons Reflect How It Imagines India’s History]( Rashme Sehgal [Rana Pratap had an Afghan general, while Shivaji, who is being shown as a Hindu icon, was fighting the Mughals for political and regional assertion – not Hindu consolidation.]( [Flowers With Halos, Asexual Worms, Vicious Tadpoles and Other Amazing Animals]( Janaki Lenin [A quick review of interesting research on living things from the last month.]( [As Nepal Joins UN Human Rights Council, Activists Call Out Its Domestic Abuses but Also See Hope]( Peter Gill and Praveen Kumar Yadav [Activists believe the country can now be held to greater scrutiny and will thus be forced to act to uphold rights domestically.]( [To Boost Their Vidarbha State Ambitions, Gadkari, Fadnavis Try to Bring Investments to Sleepy Nagpur]( Sujata Anandan [The people of Vidarbha are happy being a part of a developed state like Maharashtra, but both politicians have other plans.]( [Meeting Dina Wadia on Madison Avenue]( Andrew Whitehead [There was something remarkable about her – and with her passing, just about the last remaining link with South Asia’s independence era leaders has been broken.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](